Word Origin & History

Zion O.E. Sion, from Gk. Seon, from Heb. Tsiyon, name of a Canaanite hill fortress in Jerusalem captured by David and called in the Bible "City of David." It became the center of Jewish life and worship. Zionism "movement for forming (later supporting) a Jewish national state in Palestine" first attested 1896, from Ger. Zionismus (from Zion + L.-derived suffix -ismus), first recorded 1886 in "Selbstemancipation," by "Matthias Acher" (pseudonym of Nathan Birnbaum).

Example Sentences for zion

Otherwise he who shall go up unto the land of Zion shall not be accounted as a wise steward.

The Army of Zion, as it called itself, was not an impressive one in appearance.

He hastened to the sanctuary at Zion in order to seek refuge in the holy of holies.

Do inquire diligently of them, and write us minutely for the good of our Zion.

In the twelfth verse it says, "Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion."

This stranger travels to Zion with us, Daniel, in the employ of Mr. Jenks.

David purchased the threshing-floor of Araunah at Zion with two oxen for 50 shekels of silver.

It brings out in dramatic realisation the Awakening of Zion.

The picture of the robustious Colonel uneasy in Zion is one of them.

He must be willing and ready who would be a builder of the walls of Zion.